Again Seeker
My trainer said, “Here’s a suggestion. Don’t write everyday.” I think my brain sighed and my body said this is truth. My soul said a quiet hallelujah. Lately, I’ve been on a journey. It’s one of figuring out what my body needs and how I can find rest. I just finished reading a book called…
Read MorePoem 4, August 11, 2023 Love, Forgiveness, Kindness, Universal language Everyone understands. Yet, it’s not spoken Nearly enough. Too many things Work hard to silence it.
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Poem 3, August 10, 2023 Limericks are supposed to be funny and absurd. They can also be bawdy tales that are are not fit to print. A limerick is a five-line poem that rhymes. It’s an AABBA pattern, meaning the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme and the third and fourth lines rhyme. Yet, I…
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Poem 2, August 9, 2023 This poem is a quatrain or four-line stanza followed by a tercet or three-line stanza. It doesn’t rhyme. I am having trouble trying to define this one and cannot really do it. I can tell what it’s not: ode, elegy, free verse, sonnet, limerick. Let’s just say it a smash…
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Goodreads has been my go to social media for a while. It’s shows what’s new, tells me what my friends are reading, and highlights authors I follow. I stalk it more than Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. It’s a joy to see what my friends are reading, what they’re highlighting on kindle, and aspire too. Usually,…
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Anne Lamott’s words smacked me in the head. “My pastor, Veronica, said yesterday that God constantly tells us to rejoice, but to do that, to get ’joice back, we need to have had joy before. And it’s never been needed as badly as now, when the world is hurting so badly, because joy is medicine.”…
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For everything there is an appointed time, and an appropriate time for every activity on earth: … a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; … a time to keep silent, and a time to speak. Ecclesiastes 3:1, 5b, 7b I’ve been struck mute. I know you’ve noticed. I know I promised…
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This blog post was originally published on October 24, 2016. It’s still in the archives but I thought that bringing it back at this juncture might be fitting. Plus, it’s one of my favourite posts. Edited slightly for clarity. Several years ago, I read The Checklist Manifesto. One of the most interesting stories was the one of Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the pilot who safely landed US…
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In September 2018, I heard Noah Scalin speak on the Art of Innovation. To challenge his ability to perpetually create and to make a practice of doing innovation every day, Noah set about creating skull-a-day designed from found objects and published them immediately. I thought: If he can design a skull every day — I…
Read MoreSeveral years ago, I read The Checklist Manifesto. One of the most interesting stories was the one of Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the pilot who safely landed US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in January of 2009. It seems an extensive checklist guided the pilot and crew to skillfully and ably land a plane in…
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